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City of Miami Police have released a recorded interview with Ronald Poppo, whose face was mauled off over Memorial Day Weekend. In the interview, Poppo tells police when 31-year-old Rudy Eugene approached him, he was in a "glad mood" but turned "kind of vicious after a minute or two and then started to rip me apart." (Published Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012)

City of Miami Police have released a recorded interview with Ronald Poppo, whose face was mauled off over Memorial Day Weekend.

In the interview, Poppo tells police when 31-year-old Rudy Eugene approached him, he was in a "glad mood" but turned "kind of vicious after a minute or two and then started to rip me apart."

During the recorded interview on July 19, Poppo told detectives “he just ripped me to ribbons, he chewed up my face, he plucked out my eyes.”

Poppo said Eugene had just come back from the beach and had apparently had a bad day.

"He didn't like the beach, he said he wasn't scoring there or something," Poppo said. “For a while he was acting nice, then got a little bit flustered. He probably remembered some incident on the beach and got kinda mad about things."